for the past 3 years, I have gone out onto Nimisilia Reservoir Hi all- for the past 3 years, I have gone out onto Nimisilia Reservoir to view the thousands of Purple Martins that roost on the lake--yes I said thousands. This year, I went out 4 times. I have posted videos on youtube.com --Look under browncreeper53 to view these videos. I was out last week--the numbers are down to "just" hundreds. They roost on a cattail "island" out on the water. They usually use a large patch of cattails. Last week-they had moved to a smaller patch--the larger patch looking pretty trampled over from the previous weeks roosting by thousands of birds. I began watching them back near the beginning of August. There is a good article from last years Beacon Journal (Akron)--maybe a local library can pull up the article if anyone is interested. Good birding-- Sandy Brown Akron OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]